Something astronomers measure about a star
How many answers can you give to “Something astronomers measure about a star”? OnlyClick knows 46 of them, and rewards the ones other people miss. Most people go straight for Brightness, Temperature or Distance, so those barely lift the rocket. It is a fairly short list: only 2 answers sit in the two rarest tiers, so reaching one takes real knowledge.
Astronomers name far more things than the news ever mentions, which leaves plenty of room above the crowd. You will find it in stage 18, “Night-Sky Tour”, of the Cosmos mission. The first stages of every mission are free, and later stages come with the full mission.
PLAY ONLYCLICK FREEThe most common answers
EVERYONE- Brightness
- Temperature
- Distance
- Colour
- Size
- Mass
- Age
- Composition
- Spectrum
- Speed
- Position
- Energy Output
- Redshift
- Apparent Magnitude
- Lifetime
These are the 15 answers we rate as most common, out of the 46 we know. They score the least. The other 31, including every rare one, stay inside the game.
How the 46 answers are spread
| EVERYONE | 25 |
| THE CROWD | 18 |
| SOME | 1 |
| ONLY YOU | 2 |
The rarer your answer, the farther your rocket flies. Rarity is our own estimate of how few people would think of an answer. How to play.
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